Youth Criminal Justice Act

Marginal note:Identity of victim or witness not to be published

• 111 (1) Subject to this section, no person shall publish the name of a child or young person, or any other information related to a child or a young person, even if the child or young person is deceased, if it would identify the child or young person as having been a victim of, or as having appeared as a witness in connection with, an offence committed or alleged to have been committed by a young person.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Information that would serve to identify a child or young person referred to in subsection (1) as having been a victim or a witness may be published, or caused to be published, by

  • (a) that child or young person after he or she attains the age of eighteen years or before that age with the consent of his or her parents; or

  • (b) the parents of that child or young person if he or she is deceased.

• Marginal note:Application for leave to publish

  (3) The youth justice court may, on the application of a child or a young person referred to in subsection (1), make an order permitting the child or young person to publish information that would identify him or her as having been a victim or a witness if the court is satisfied that the publication would not be contrary to his or her best interests or the public interest.